I dunno, a few more steps down that slippery slope and then you've got Triffids. That's pretty predatory.

Actually nature developed most of the product and as a card carrying member of nature, I expect to see my royalties check in the mail soon.

They deserve to make some money from it. Mostly the original researchers that is. They had their wages to do their fucking job researching shit. Maybe we should have a kind of UN bonus system to reward outstanding research.

These companies take the research and all that it's build on and use it for free to develop it into a product. Do a good job growing and selling them then, make money. But laws protecting them to create an artificial monopoly is unethical. It's hard to build up a successful and efficient company, but monopolies practically invite them to be inefficient and garbage.